colucc43
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Ultiworld footnote reads:
Besides not being an irony, small or great, no disc thrown by a professional accelerates at all, excepting drop-ins or near vertical putts.
exactly, that's why their attempt at paralleling the fastness of a car and the fastness of a disc is nonsense. how each accelerates is completely different. the moment a disc is going its fastest is the last second it touches our hand, and the millisecond after that (there would never be a reason to time this because its over so fast; 0 to 60 in, blah blah). how a car accelerates is incredibly slower by comparison.
the irony is at the level of the DGPT's message--sports cars signify fastness and in their mind putting disc golf next to that signifier would make people associate the sport with fastness and all its synonyms. their message only works in the abstract if one ignores concrete reality--and, like we've all immediately noticed, their message was just a gigantic, poorly executed flop.